Re: Vonage vs. Verizon

2007-01-18 Thread Travis Roy
But, with Broadvoice, I have a choice. With Vonage, I don't. I suppose, though I don't feel I need a choice at this point. Oh, okay.. I guess we'll just switch back to one phone company so you get no choice at all. Hopefully they'll be willing to even offer VoIP services. :)

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 18 January, Jarod Wilson Expounds MythTV

2007-01-18 Thread Mark Komarinski
On 01/17/2007 07:14 AM, Jim Kuzdrall wrote: Who : Jarod Wilson, Red Hat, Author Hacking MythTV (ExtremeTech) What : MythTV review, tips, questions answered, books autographed. Where: Martha's Exchange Day : Thur 18 January **Tomorrow** Time : 6:00 PM for grub, 7:30 PM for discussion I

Does GNHLUG need Internet-enabled calendars?

2007-01-18 Thread Ted Roche
Overheard at a recent LUG meeting: And we need a real calendar, too! This is a call for Requests for Ideas, Volunteers and Naysayers (since they'll appear anyway, and bring some reasonable objections, too). www.gnhlug.org's main page lists the who, what, where, when of upcoming meetings,

Re: Vonage vs. Verizon [was: Anyone had experience with Comcast SMC modem/router? ]

2007-01-18 Thread Tom Buskey
On 1/17/07, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To say nothing of the redundancies in conventional POTS design (which really is, in general, some of the most robust engineering I've ever seen in the public sector). (Emphisis POTS here -- anything more than -48 VDC talk battery and the whole

Re: Vonage vs. Verizon

2007-01-18 Thread Tom Buskey
On 1/17/07, Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In fairness, the 911concerns (well, the real ones) are not about *if* calls can go through, but whether calls will *always* go through, and properly. I'm sure I don't need to tell you, Paul, about the

Re: Does GNHLUG need Internet-enabled calendars?

2007-01-18 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
I recently switched from the venerable email system that I have been using for 15 years to Evolution just so I could share calendars (as well as other information) with a group of co-workers, so having something that could feed events directly into the Evolution calendar would be interesting. Or

Re: Does GNHLUG need Internet-enabled calendars?

2007-01-18 Thread Seth Cohn
I've been recommending Google Calendar lately as the best option out there, for the least amount of work. There are other choices, other calendars/wikis/cmses which will export ics and other standards, but so far, Google Calendar is the most feature rich. On 1/18/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL

Re: Does GNHLUG need Internet-enabled calendars?

2007-01-18 Thread Seth Cohn
Fair enough... Let the competition for the best locally managed calendaring begin! Let's build a list of Contenders: My personal experience: Drupal: exports ics files and rss, using the event module [doesn't not import ical...yet. been waiting for that a long time]

Re: Linux at least mentioned in passing as an alternative to Windows

2007-01-18 Thread Travis Roy
Here's the text Or, consider something else entirely. If you really want a new operating system, there are plenty of options out there for experimentation. And they’re free. Yeah, I’m talkin’ ‘bout Linux. I know what you’re thinking: no applications, spotty hardware support and lots

Re: Linux at least mentioned in passing as an alternative to Windows

2007-01-18 Thread Ted Roche
On Jan 18, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Mark Mcsweeney wrote: Saw this article in the Hippo Press: http://www.hippopress.com/techie.html mentioned was the option of switching to alternative OS when Vista comes out. I also wrote an email to him recommending that he look at some of the current

Re: Re: Linux at least mentioned in passing as an alternative to Windows

2007-01-18 Thread Mark Mcsweeney
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:34:11 -0500 Subject: Re: Linux at least mentioned in passing as an alternative to Windows Here's the text Or, consider something else entirely. If you really want a new operating system, there are plenty of options out there for experimentation. And they're free.

Re: Re: Linux at least mentioned in passing as an alternative to Windows

2007-01-18 Thread Drew Van Zandt
I know him, I'll rattle his cage in person, see if I can get him to try installing Ubuntu. --DTVZ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Does GNHLUG need Internet-enabled calendars?

2007-01-18 Thread Ben Scott
On 1/18/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Overheard at a recent LUG meeting: And we need a real calendar, too! I want something that will: - Automatically know when regular meetings are - Allow special events to be entered, too - Let local group coordinators fill in the details for each

Re: Does GNHLUG need Internet-enabled calendars?

2007-01-18 Thread brk
As long as it alerts everyone to my birthday, I don't care :) This is (maybe) completely off topic, but I think it would be a neat/ cool/fun project to make this a mini development project and build it ourselves. On Jan 18, 2007, at 1:32 PM, Ben Scott wrote: On 1/18/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL

Re: Vonage vs. Verizon [was: Anyone had experience with Comcast SMC modem/router? ]

2007-01-18 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Tom Buskey writes: What other system is engineered for failure as well as the POTS stuff? Railroad signaling? Lunar Lander life support? Fighter aircraft? For some insights into how to implement software systems of this quality, look here:

Re: Does GNHLUG need Internet-enabled calendars?

2007-01-18 Thread Ted Roche
Seth Cohn wrote: Fair enough... Let the competition for the best locally managed calendaring begin! Let's build a list of Contenders: A quick visit to http://www.cmsmatrix.org shows that many contenders (Drupal, Joomla!, Plone, TWiki) all are listed as having Event Calendars as an add-on. The

Re: Linux at least mentioned in passing as an alternative to Windows

2007-01-18 Thread kenta
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Travis Roy wrote: Here's the text Thanks for posting the text. For everyone's benefit I've trimmed it down to a single framented sentence: Or just buy a Mac. I'm sure some of you are rolling your eyes and thinking Ugh mac fanboy! I really do like my linux machines.

Free system boards

2007-01-18 Thread brk
I'm going to be at Martha's at 1730 tonight, but won't be staying for the meeting. I will have (1) case each of 2 different kinds of SuperMicro Socket 370 system boards to giveaway. A few people voiced interest in obtaining one of these boards when I posted up in my office-cleaning

[GNHLUG] CentraLUG, Feb 5th, NHTI: Matt Brodeur GnuPG and OpenPGP, keysigning.

2007-01-18 Thread Ted Roche
The monthly meeting of CentraLUG, the Concord/Central NH GNHLUG chapter, happens the first Monday of most months on the New Hampshire Institute Campus starting at 7 PM. Next month's meeting is on February 5th at 7 PM. Directions and maps are available at http://www.centralug.org and on

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 18 January, Jarod Wilson Expounds MythTV

2007-01-18 Thread Adam Helbling
On 1/17/07, Jim Kuzdrall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who : Jarod Wilson, Red Hat, Author Hacking MythTV (ExtremeTech) What : MythTV review, tips, questions answered, books autographed. Where: Martha's Exchange Day : Thur 18 January **Tomorrow** Time : 6:00 PM for grub, 7:30 PM for discussion :

Linux on Compaq Presario Laptop...

2007-01-18 Thread mike shlitz
Hi All, I recently inherited a fairly new Compaq Presario V2000 Laptop (V2606CU). It came to me with MSW Home on it and I'd like to switch it over to FC, CentOS, or Ubuntu. (Any suggestions or caveats welcome). CPU is a Mobile AMD Sempron Processor 3000+ (787 MHz) Current RAM = 256 MB (I

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 18 January, Jarod Wilson Expounds MythTV

2007-01-18 Thread Ted Roche
On Jan 18, 2007, at 4:04 PM, Adam Helbling wrote: I just saw this RSVP requirement, I havn't been to a GNHLUG in sometime, is there enough room for my wife and me? I think Jim tries to reserve enough space for dinner so we can accomodate a few extras. We often overflow into the surrounding

Re: Linux on Compaq Presario Laptop...

2007-01-18 Thread Michael Nolin
40 GB HDD Matsushita UJDA 770 DVD/CDRW drive RealTek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC Broadcom 802.11 b/g WLAN Broadcom 802.11 b/g WLAN My Dell has this part, had to install an NDIS driver as there are not Linux drivers for it. Unless one has been released in the last two years. Mike

Re: [GNHLUG] MerriLUG Nashua, Thur 18 January, Jarod Wilson Expounds MythTV

2007-01-18 Thread Jim Kuzdrall
On Thursday 18 January 2007 04:04 pm, Adam Helbling wrote: On 1/17/07, Jim Kuzdrall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who : Jarod Wilson, Red Hat, Author Hacking MythTV (ExtremeTech) What : MythTV review, tips, questions answered, books autographed. Where: Martha's Exchange Day : Thur 18 January

Re: Free system boards

2007-01-18 Thread aluminumsulfate
From: brk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:51:31 -0500 I will have (1) case each of 2 different kinds of SuperMicro Socket 370 system boards to giveaway. A few people voiced interest in obtaining one of these boards when I posted up in my office-cleaning email a couple of

[OOPS!] Re: Free system boards

2007-01-18 Thread aluminumsulfate
Oops, sorry! That was intended to be a private message ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

Re: Free system boards

2007-01-18 Thread Shawn K. O'Shea
I will have (1) case each of 2 different kinds of SuperMicro Socket 370 system boards to giveaway. Well one of the boards is the SuperMicro 370SED. For those that got this one, here's all the pertinent links you'll want. Spec page (no longer available on supermicro.com but the Wayback

Re: Linux on Compaq Presario Laptop...

2007-01-18 Thread mike miller
I've been having trouble getting FC6 to recognize the Realtek RTL8139 NIC on another motherboard although Ubuntu did. I had some other issues with Ubuntu so I'm trying to get it working with FC6. Let me know how you make out. Mike Miller Mike Miller - Original Message - From: mike

[GNHLUG] DLSLUG Monthly Meeting - February 1st

2007-01-18 Thread Bill McGonigle
*** Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Linux User Group http://www.dlslug.org/ *** The next regular monthly meeting of the DLSLUG will be held:

Re: Does GNHLUG need Internet-enabled calendars?

2007-01-18 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jan 18, 2007, at 14:11, Ted Roche wrote: A quick visit to http://www.cmsmatrix.org shows that many contenders (Drupal, Joomla!, Plone, TWiki) all are listed as having Event Calendars as an add-on. The feature breakdown doesn't get into the specifics of iCal, vCal, hCalendar, etc. which

Re: Linux at least mentioned in passing as an alternative to Windows

2007-01-18 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jan 18, 2007, at 12:21, Drew Van Zandt wrote: I know him, I'll rattle his cage in person, see if I can get him to try installing Ubuntu. Do you have half an hour to hold his hand for an install? Seeing is believing. If not, maybe somebody down in Hippo territory does. -Bill -